>>> OK, so I guess it should be sed 's/^/> /'. > >>However I noticed another problem. When I quote a text that is already >>quoted, the result gets the "> " characters moved around. I would like >>to get ">> " or "> > " for text that is quoted twice. > > What do you mean by "moved around"? Can you post an example?
Sure: Example of the "> " characters being moved around after quoting three times: > > > Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. > > > Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the > 1500s, > > when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it > to make a > > type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, > but also the > > leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially > unchanged. It was > > popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset > sheets containing > > Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop > publishing software > > like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem > Ipsum. > > > Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. > > Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the > 1500s, > when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it > to make a > type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, > but also the > leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially > unchanged. It was > popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset > sheets containing > Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop > publishing software > like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum. > > Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. > Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, > when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a > type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the > leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was > popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing > Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software > like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum. > The sed script quoted above is very simple. It just puts "> " at the > start of each line and should not move anything around. > > If you are piping the result to fmt(1), then I guess you'd see the > "moving around" you might be talking about. If this is the problem, you > may want to use par(1) instead (from the "par" package). par knows about > quoting and preserves it properly when reformatting. It's got quite a > few options, but I typically use it as "par 72q" - that uses 72 chars as > the max line width and handles quoting. > > $ sed 's/^/> /' | par 72q I used your example with "par" and it worked just as intended. Thanks again! > A slightly more complicated sed script to use not put an extra space > after the quote on already quoted text would be: > > $ sed -e 's/^>/>>/' -e '/^\([^>]\|$\)/s/^/> /' | par 72q Thanks for this one too. It worked as well as you can see in this example: >>>> Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting >>>> industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy >>>> text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley >>>> of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has >>>> survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic >>>> typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised >>>> in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem >>>> Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software >>>> like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum. >>> >>> Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting >>> industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text >>> ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type >>> and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not >>> only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, >>> remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s >>> with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, >>> and more recently with desktop publishing software >> >> Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting >> industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text >> ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type >> and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not >> only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, >> remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with >> the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and >> more recently with desktop publishing software > > Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting > industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text > ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type > and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not > only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, > remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with > the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and > more recently with desktop publishing software -- Regards, Thomas Anderson "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
